In a reversal, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled against FedEx Ground Package System Inc., which sought...

Recently formed Squire Patton Boggs LLP is facing accusations it breached ethical obligations to clear certain conflicts of in...

With the legislative session days away from closing, plaintiff's lawyers have had some mixed victories. But tort lawyers' big ...

San Diego County Superior Court Judge Joel R. Wohlfeil upheld a state law Wednesday that requires municipalities to follow pre...

CAALA president-elect Joseph M. Barrett says the nation's largest local trial lawyers association will focus on Proposition 46...

Respected immigration court judge and former federal prosecutor Afsaneh Ashley Tabaddor, recently challenged a Department of J...

Justices sometimes falter when drafting opinions, penning ill-conceived footnotes, hyperbolic diatribes and incorrect facts. S...

While the immigrant surge on the border jams courtrooms, asylum barriers fell for many this week with a landmark ruling in fav...

A roundup of recent real estate deals and the lawyers involved.

An Irvine-based plaintiff's attorney said the retailer also dodged California's requirement to pay workers additional wages wh...

Nearly 20 years after the defeat of Prop. 201, the fee-shifting battle has resurfaced - and the biotech industry has been on t...

Patenting strategies in the life sciences must pivot to accommodate two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions interpreting what ...

New guidelines may make it significantly more difficult to obtain patent protection for purified natural products and their de...

The inter partes review, a new proceeding developed under the America Invents Act, is becoming the new weapon of choice for ch...

Less than two years after implementation of inter partes review proceedings at the USPTO, the judges who conduct the proceedin...

Increasingly, the marketplace has seen the creation and distribution of apps to manage personal health issues. The development...

Over the past decade, the life sciences have evolved dramatically by integrating technologies from a variety of other scientif...

The highly contentious Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama four years ago. Lost in the debate ov...

It seems like every few months, news of a pioneering "stem cell breakthrough" appears in the press, but discoveries are often ...

In the early stages of development, inventors and their employers are often confused about what to patent. What is valuable to...

Even the slightest offensive touching in a domestic violence incident can trigger a federal lifetime ban on gun ownership for ...

San Francisco-based cloud application provider FinancialForce.com Inc. has hired its first vice president and general counsel....

California law has long treated bicyclists as just another type of vehicle. But on Sept. 16, a new law will recognize the nee...

Berkshire Hathaway contributed $3 billion in preferred equity financing to help Burger King Worldwide acquire Tim Hortons with...

A San Bernardino County Superior Court jury unanimously awarded $4.3 million to members of a California campground who accused...

Judges may not accept even trivial gifts from litigants or potential litigants, and they should probably not accept most gifts...

The life sciences sector has been experiencing a boom in M&A activity. With more than $260 billion worth of deals announce...

Defense attorneys tried a novel theory in a mortgage fraud case in Sacramento, and got a novel outcome: complete acquittal. ...

A preliminary injunction motion filed Tuesday in an ongoing federal lawsuit against the jail asks for a court order to force t...